OpenAI

Program Lead, ISV & Marketplace Partnerships

OpenAI$150K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in partner programs, marketplaces, ecosystem operations, business operations, or program management.
  • Experience in building or scaling technology partner, ISV, or marketplace programs.
  • Ability to turn ambiguous goals into clear processes and measurable outcomes.
  • Understanding of SaaS, APIs, developer platforms, integrations, and B2B go-to-market motions.
  • Experience in cross-functional collaboration with various organizational departments.
  • Strong communication skills with a focus on influencing senior stakeholders.
  • Strong partner orientation with a balanced judgment of experience and governance.

Responsibilities

  • Design and run the end-to-end ISV and marketplace partner program.
  • Define eligibility criteria, partner segmentation, and lifecycle stages.
  • Create streamlined onboarding and growth journeys for partners.
  • Establish program policies and governance structures.
  • Develop partner communications and educational resources.
  • Track and report on program metrics related to recruitment and partner health.
  • Gather partner feedback for continuous program improvements.

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment with fast-moving projects.
  • Opportunities for collaboration across diverse teams.
  • Engagement in high-impact projects that shape technology partnerships.
  • Supportive culture fostering innovation and operational excellence.
Full Job Description
About the Team

We are a small and fast-moving partnerships team that shapes and executes OpenAI's most important collaborations. Your mission is to design and operate the partner program for technology partners, ISVs, and marketplace participants. You will turn partner strategy into a simple, scalable experience from recruitment and onboarding through enablement, benefits, performance management, and growth.

About the Role

You are an operational builder with strong judgment, high ownership, and a track record of turning ambiguous goals into clear programs and measurable outcomes. You are comfortable working across product, engineering, GTM, marketing, operations, legal, finance, security, and support. You balance rigorous systems and governance with a thoughtful partner experience, and you can move quickly as the ecosystem evolves.

In this role, you will:
  • Design and run the end-to-end ISV and marketplace partner program.
  • Define partner eligibility, segmentation, tiers, benefits, requirements, and lifecycle stages.
  • Build repeatable onboarding, technical enablement, validation, listing, launch, and growth journeys.
  • Establish program policies, documentation, service levels, governance, and escalation paths.
  • Create partner communications, education, office hours, playbooks, and self-service resources.
  • Develop program metrics and dashboards covering recruitment, activation, solution quality, adoption, revenue impact, and partner health.
  • Coordinate launches and program changes across product, engineering, GTM, marketing, legal, security, finance, support, and operations.
  • Capture partner feedback and translate it into program, product, and operating improvements.

You might thrive in this role if you have:
  • 8+ years of experience in partner programs, marketplaces, ecosystem operations, business operations, or program management.
  • Proven experience building or scaling a technology partner, ISV, or marketplace program.
  • Exceptional ability to convert ambiguous goals into clear processes, ownership, service levels, and measurable outcomes.
  • Strong understanding of SaaS, APIs, developer platforms, integrations, and B2B go-to-market motions.
  • Demonstrated cross-functional execution across product, engineering, GTM, marketing, legal, finance, security, support, and operations.
  • Clear, effective communication with the ability to influence senior internal and external stakeholders.
  • A strong partner orientation and the judgment to balance experience, quality, governance, and scale.


About OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
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100 employees
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2015

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